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'Small confusion': UN chief starts reading wrong speech at Cop27

Guardian, 09 Nov 2022
Pausing mid-sentence and flipping through his notes, UN secretary general, António Guterres, realised he was reading from the wrong speech.
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'I'm going to speak to a group of young people afterwards and there was a small confusion. I apologise,' he told a huge crowd of attendees at Cop27 on Wednesday.

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